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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 13, 2005, 25(28):6479-6489; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0763-05.2005

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History-Dependent Multiple-Time-Scale Dynamics in a Single-Neuron Model

Gail Gilboa,¹ Ronen Chen,² and Naama Brenner²

Departments of ¹Mathematics and ²Chemical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel

History-dependent characteristic time scales in dynamics have been observed at several levels of organization in neural systems. Such dynamics can provide powerful means for computation and memory. At the level of the single neuron, several microscopic mechanisms, including ion channel kinetics, can support multiple-time-scale dynamics. How the temporally complex channel kinetics gives rise to dynamical properties of the neuron is not well understood. Here, we construct a model that captures some features of the connection between these two levels of organization. The model neuron exhibits history-dependent multiple-time-scale dynamics in several effects: first, after stimulation, the recovery time scale is related to the stimulation duration by a power-law scaling; second, temporal patterns of neural activity in response to ongoing stimulation are modulated over time; finally, the characteristic time scale for adaptation after a step change in stimulus depends on the duration of the preceding stimulus. All these effects have been observed experimentally and are not explained by current single-neuron models. The model neuron here presented is composed of an ensemble of ion channels that can wander in a large pool of degenerate inactive states and thus exhibits multiple-time-scale dynamics at the molecular level. Channel inactivation rate depends on recent neural activity, which in turn depends through modulations of the neural response function on the fraction of active channels. This construction produces a model that robustly exhibits nonexponential history-dependent dynamics, in qualitative agreement with experimental results.

Key words: adaptation; multiple time scales; single-neuron model; nonexponential relaxation; short-term cellular memory; ion channel diffusive dynamics

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Received Aug 2, 2004; revised May 26, 2005; accepted May 26, 2005.

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